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SaferCar App Helps With Child Safety Seats

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If you've had a child within the last two decades, you're probably about as frustrated as we are with the complexity of installing child safety seats. Latch or seatbelt? Automatic locking retractor or emergency locking retractor? Belt locking clip or twisted belt stalk? According to Safe Kids USA, properly installed child safety seats reduce risk of injury by 71% for infants and 54% for toddlers in passenger cars. While the milk crate full of bungee cords or duct tape in the garage might look like a tempting alternative to struggling with installing a child seat, the better option is using the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's new, free  SaferCar app  for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches to find a certified child passenger safety technician near you (NHTSA is working on an Android app). Those who don't have mobile Apple devices can search for a technician on the  NHTSA website . While the app has plenty of other features relating to vehicle safety, it ...

Why Every Site Should Be Penetration Tested

Why Every Site Should Be Penetration Tested | Ethical Hacking-Your Way To The World Of IT Security Penetration testing can get a bad rap due to the unprofessional way in which some people approach it (both clients and testers). Done correctly, it can shine the light on security flaws which are only capable of being exploited by the most dedicated hackers with plenty of time on their hands which is many of them. Done poorly, it is rushed, and only a cursory attempt is really to crack a box. Some companies have no problem with this, as they only conduct pen tests to appease some regulator, rather than truly safeguard their systems, it's as if they really  don't  want to know if they can be compromised, as then they will have to incur the expense of actually plugging in the holes. But do you really think hackers work in this lackadaisical fashion, when they know that each compromised network represents real currency, and not just bragging rights? That's a r...

Google Gets Top Marks For Protecting User Privacy, Apple Lags Far Behin

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Google Gets Top Marks For Protecting User Privacy, Apple Lags Far Behin : reat deal of interest in how your online privacy is managed.     |  Timothy Koppe * * EFF Privacy Ranking Chart If you use the Internet-and lets be honest, we live in a wired (or wireless!) world-then you should have a great deal of interest in how your online privacy is managed. One thing most users don't think about (I know I didn't for a while) is, despite whatever draconian methods we might take to protect our online lives, how well does the company that owns those services protect our privacy? Thanks to the information collected from the  Electronic Frontier Foundation  now we have an answer. According to the EFF's most recent report card, Google has ranked as one of the companies when it comes to how hard they try to protect the privacy of their users. According to the report, Google received starts inn the following categories: - Requiring a warrant to release user conten...